River ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ita, I wonder if you are conflating prodigal and profligate?
I am in such a foul mood. mr. flea just got back from 8 days in Belgium and France, and next Tuesday leaves for 4 nights again. He told me it was the 10-12th, so I reasonably assumed 2 nights. 4 nights is double that (it is actually 9th-13th). Grrr.
I should shower and start doing productive things, but I have a serious case of the don't wannas.
I wonder if you are conflating prodigal and profligate?
I don't understand. They share a meaning. I didn't conflate them, English did.
2. Diamonds Are Not The Hardest Substance on Earth
Not no more, anyway....
Yeah, but the only thing that's harder is also pure carbon that's been heated and put under extreme pressure. I say it's still just a diamond, only tougher and fuglier than usual. It's the dock-side hooker diamond.
Well, dictionary English, yes, but in US usage that I see, prodigal is almost always used in the "prodigal son" sense, and the profligate nature of the prodigal is elided, with emphasis on "he was unspecifically bad, and then he came back and was accepted".
in US usage that I see, prodigal is almost always used in the "prodigal son" sense, [...] "he was unspecifically bad, and then he came back and was accepted".
Yeah--that's kind of what I meant by my question:
Am I right in thinking "prodigal" is often used to mean long-lost-but-now-returning and not spendthrift?
I.E. it's not used to mean profligate, although that's what it's supposed to mean. And the "prodigal son" sense, he is profligate. It's just not what people seem to be taking away from the parable.
I'm now wondering at the connection between "prodigal" and "prodigious."
Right. I guess we agree. Sorry I misunderstood.
But the prodigal son returned, sheepishly, because he spent all he had.
eta sorry for the xpost.
The whole prodigal thing had me confused for a while.
There's a strange man on my balcony. They're painting the exterior of the building, but we're given no advance warning as to when they'll climb up the outside wall onto our balcony or just a moment before they'll paint the floor outside your apartment so you're hemmed in until it dries.
A note would have been nice.